Stir Fry Tempeh with Green Beans (Oseng Tempe Buncis)

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Kezia's Kitchen 👩‍🍳

Stir Fry Tempeh with Green Beans (Oseng Tempe Buncis)

You could say that the easiest Indonesian food to learn with very simple spices is stir-fried vegetables. Eating vegetables just like that sometimes feels boring. Not only for children, adults too. This time around the beans with the addition of tempeh. And Tempeh or tempe is a traditional Javanese food made from fermented soybeans. It is made by a natural culturing and controlled fermentation process that binds soybeans into a cake form. A fungus, Rhizopus oligosporus, is used in the fermentation process and is also known as tempeh starter.

Ingredient

400 gram

tempe (fermented soybean)

250 gram

green beans

2 tablespoon

oyster sauce

3 cloves

shallots

2 cloves

garlic

large red chilies, cut into slices

bay leaves

1 cm

galangal (bruised)

1/2 tsp

salt

3 tbsp

sweet soy sauce

1-2 tablespoons

brown sugar

1 tsp

pepper powder

1/2 tsp

stock powder (optional)

Cooking instructions

* Step 1

Cut the tempeh into squares and heat the oil, fry the tempeh until golden brown, remove and set aside.

* Step 2

Sauté the sliced spices using the oil that was used to fry the tempeh, cook it until it wilts, then add the red chilies & green beans and cook until it wilts.

* Step 3

After the beans & red chili wilt, add the tempeh, sweet soy sauce, oyster sauce, brown sugar, ground pepper, water and mix well until the gravy thickens

* Step 4

After the spices & tempeh are well mixed and the spices are absorbed into the brownish-colored tempeh, taste, lift and serve with warm rice and don't forget crackers 😉

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